1. Users will not be able to accept meeting requests directly from email invitations.
2. There is bigger integration between maps and email. For instance, if a user receives an invitation to an event via an email, that address will be displayed on a map within the email.
3. Nokia N8 users:
   a. Quick Office 6.4 has arrived which offers editing possibilities and the ability to zoom in and out of Word documents.
   b. The addition of three new games is also included, Need for Speed Shift, Real Golf and Galaxy on Fire. In some regions, Need for Speed will be replaced by Asphalt.
   c. All these features will be free for current N8 owners via the Ovi Suite and Ovi Store.

The software update will be available on the device via the Ovi Suite but we will warn you in advance, the update is pretty large especially for N8 users so we would advise you to use Wi-Fi if you’re downloading it from the phone unless you have an unlimited data plan. The non-customized version is available now, service provider specific versions are said to be following pretty soon. We’ll keep an eye on it and let you know when those customized version become available.

Source: Nokia

You just know that Nokia have a lot of faith in the Nokia Booklet 3G when you do a little bit of thinking about how much that nifty 90 seconds might have cost to make. Brand new phone? Some intern in London with a DV cam. Rehash of an old Classic phone? A secretary in Finland with a Polaroid camera and some sticky back plastic is about par for the course.

But this thing…. lordy. And, in all seriousness, we think the Nokia 3G Booklet deserves every bit of currency being thrown at it because it is a little cracker of a netbook. Really, truly, honestly… we’re not about to build up then knock down your expectations with some cuttingly, perfectly timed cynicism, or make you cry a little bit with some acerbic punchline that’d make a boxer wince. Nope, not this time. The Nokia Booklet 3G is a damn good netbook. One of the best out there. Simple as that.

The fact that it’s Nokia’s first foray into the computing world will attract a lot of attention of course. But to us it just makes plain sense. Mobile technology experts in shock transition into, erm, a slightly different type of mobile technology. It’s not exactly trading horse grooming for rocket science, is it?

There’s plenty that isn’t astonishing about this thing – screen size, RAM, processor – but this all disappears from thought when you consider what IS astonishing. 12 hour battery life. Check. A-GPS + Ovi Maps. Check. WiFi + 3G. Check… How cool is that?! Especially the GPS bit…

So there we have it. We told you, didn’t we: not an ounce of cynicism; not a sniff of negativity. How the times they have a-changed.

Check out this Nokia Booklet 3G review, or have a look at the official page for even more cynicism-free ramblings.

Now, we’re off to neck a load of rum and start ranting in the pub to relieve this sarcasm-blockage that’s making us choke…

However, stereotypes can also be incredibly useful in helping us navigate the daily world and, used in the right way, can help us overcome certain problems.

The video below, for example, is an intriguing example of how, using one particular batch stereotypes, we can overcome another group of stereotypes, and so reach a better and more fulfilling place.

Stereotypes group 1 – Middle-aged men with funny hair that looks like it’s made of plastic and Stussy t-shirts that are too tight and make their beer bellies stick out should not be trusted in any way, shape, or form. And, in fact, the police should be informed of said man’s whereabouts, just, you know, in case.

However, before you turn off said video in agreement with all of the above, consider that name, and that funny accent a little harder. Then you’ll realise, golly gosh: he’s not a dangerous weirdo, he’s simply Finnish. Finnish! A man of Finland. Land of, erm, reindeer?

But also, land of Nokia. And that’s where stereotypes group 2 comes into play, because, thanks to Nokia, we all know that all of the Finnish people have very tiny fingers and are taught to solder from the age of four and so therefore make the very best mobile phones the world has ever seen. And to think, we though this gentleman kidnapped children for a living! How rash we were.

All that being in place, you can now carry on watching the video and come to realise, as well you should, that the N900 that they’re yapping on about with their funny Finnish mouths is in fact one of the best phones released for a very long time. That the Nokia N900 is, in fact, a work of genius.

Still can’t get over that slight mistrust of the video-Finns? Then read this Nokia N900 review, or have a look at the official stats this-a-way instead.

It wasn’t long ago that all 149 Euros before subsidies got you was a can, a string and an instruction manual informing you to shout very loudly into your new talky-can device. Then it was even less time ago that 149 Euros before subsidies would just about get you a mobile phone communication device that could – hold your breaths now – send these things called SMS messages, or “text” messages as the crazy kids of the day called them.

Now? Now look, now would you look at what you can get for 149 Euros before locally applicable surcharges and taxes: the Nokia 5230 no less! Why, the future is, at least briefly, very much here, dear reader. Rejoice and hold hands.

3.2” inch resistive touchscreen? Ovi Maps working with on-board GPS? Music playing for up to 33 hours? Facebooking? Emailing? Loud music on the bus playing? Bright shiny eye hurting cover swapping? Yes, yes, yes and yes again, all on the Nokia 5230.

Have a look at this Nokia 5230 review, or venture towards the official page if you don’t believe us.

And just imagine, just imagine what the future holds for us if this trend continues. Why, in 2011, we can’t but think we’ll all be travelling through time and exploring the deep, cold canyons of the moon thanks to the new teleportational features of whatever-random-4-digit-coded Nokia gets released that year, all for, well, about 149 of your Euros, before, that is, any of those locally applicable taxes and regional surcharges.

What exciting times these are indeed. My goodness.

In these cynical times when every brand and his Pedigree Chum dog has realised that music is da place to be (innit) in order to attract chunks of obscenely large wedges of pocket money the yoof of today get, it’s refreshing to see the Nokia 5800 Navigation edition turn its back on this trend and set off on, well, on its own voice-guided, turn-by-turn directed path.

Because while you’ll find Carling sponsoring tramps on the Underground, Brahma sponsoring athletic hippies to dance your faces off with some kind of Brazillian dancing, Smirnoff sponsoring, oh, we don’t know, getting ****ed and throwing vodka bottles at Oasis, Nokia have decided to re-brand their biggest XpressMusic phone seller as, well, as a phone for old people.

Because no one under 25 is seriously going to be interested in the Nokia 5800 Navigator edition, are they? Or are we so out of touch that we’re missing a trick here? Are all the youths in our neighbourhood repeatedly wheel-spinning and doing handbrake turns on our road because they’re lost and would just die for some directions and a little voice-guided help finding their way to the services on the ring road? Are all the little spotty folk buzzing up and down the car park of the recreation centre simply looking for the nearest Waterstones? Clearly that must be what Nokia have noticed! Those smart little Finns.

So, you noisy rascals with your stolen vehicles! Have a little look at this Nokjia 5800 navigation review to convince you more. Or at this official page to, erm, well, convince you of nothing. Or even look at the video below to show you how tranquil and peaceful Finland is without the likes of you making everyone’s life a misery. In fact, why don’t you plot yourselves a route their you little tykes. Ah, go on, no one will miss you. Not even your single mums.